Cruls Islands
The Cruls Islands or Crulls Islands are a group of small islands lying 2 km west of the Roca Islands in the southern part of the Wilhelm Archipelago. They were discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897–99, and named by Gerlache for Luís Cruls, a Belgian astronomer and later Director of the Observatory at Rio de Janeiro.- Island
- Description: Island group in Wilhelm Archipelago, Antarctica
- Also known as“Cruls, Iles”“Cruls, islotes”
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- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-65.19595° or 65° 11′ 45″ south
Longitude
-64.5427° or 64° 32′ 34″ west
Open location code
376QRF34+JW
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Cruls Islands” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Cruls”
- Chinese: “克魯爾斯群島”
- Dutch: “Cruls Islands”
- German: “Cruls-Inseln”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cruls Islands”
- Spanish: “Cruls, Islotes”
- Spanish: “Islotes Cruls”
- Swedish: “Cruls Islands”
- Swedish: “Cruls”
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